Samuel L. Jackson says ‘it’s not’ an honor to receive Oscar nomination:’It’s an honor to win’

Samuel L. Jackson is looking at the Academy Awards with a fresh perspective.

Jackson, 75, did not mince words when sharing his thoughts about the coveted gong, saying Oscar nominations don’t mean much to him.

“We’ve been in the business long enough to know that when folks go, ‘It’s just an honor to be nominated.’ No, it ain’t,” Jackson told the Associated Press in a joint interview with his “The Piano Lesson” co-star Michael Potts.

“It’s an honor to win,” the “Pulp Fiction” actor said, adding that most people ultimately forget Oscar-nominated performances. @APEntertainment/X

“It’s an honor to win,” the “Pulp Fiction” actor said, adding that most people ultimately forget Oscar-nominated performances.

“You get nominated and folks go, ‘Yeah I remember that.’ Or most people forget,” he quipped.

The “Unbreakable” actor was nominated in the Best Supporting Actor category at the 1995 Oscars for his role as Jules Winnfield in Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction.”

He ultimately lost out to Martin Landau for his role as Ed Wood in the 1994 film of the same name.

Jackson believed that he would’ve won an Oscar for his role in Joel Schumacher’s “A Time To Kill” if his memorable scenes hadn’t been cut from the final version.

“The things they took out kept me from getting an Oscar,” Jackson told old Vulture in 2023. “Really, motherf–kers? You just took that s–t from me?”

After years of being without the coveted award, Jackson was finally given the Honorary Academy Award in 2021, and was recognized as a “cultural icon” by the Academy. AP

“My first day working on that film, I did a speech in a room with an actor and the whole f–king set was in tears when I finished. I was like, ‘Okay. I’m on the right page.’ That shit is not in the movie! And I know why it’s not. Because it wasn’t my movie, and they weren’t trying to make me a star.”

After years of being without the coveted award, Jackson was finally given the Honorary Academy Award in 2021, and was recognized as a “cultural icon” by the Academy.

Jackson in “Pulp Fiction” alongside John Travolta. Miramax/Buena Vista/Kobal / Shutterstock

“Generally it’s a contest you didn’t volunteer to be in,” he said of award ceremonies. “I didn’t go in there so I could flex. ‘Let me do my scene, so you can remember who I was.’”

“They nominate you and people go, ‘What is that movie you’re nominated for? What’s the name of that thing?’ And after it’s over and people have a hard time remembering who even won,” the “Snakes on a Plane” actor added.

Jackson starred as Jedi Master Mace Windu in George Lucas’s “Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones.” AP

The “Star Wars” actor also told Vulture that his 2021 Oscar “didn’t feel honorary” and instead it “just felt like I was getting an Oscar.”

“I earned it. I worked for it,” he told the outlet. “I can possibly name four other instances where I could have won or should have won or should have been nominated, but I’m fine with it. It’s mine. I got it. My name’s on it.”